Scrollback frame buffer is rather big - 32K, so it requires 3rd order page, so let's use kvmalloc() instead of ordinary kmalloc() for it.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko khorenko@virtuozzo.com --- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c index 8958ccc8b1ac..2b1a34d3f5e2 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c @@ -992,7 +992,7 @@ static const char *fbcon_startup(void) if (!softback_buf) { softback_buf = (unsigned long) - kmalloc(fbcon_softback_size, + kvmalloc(fbcon_softback_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!softback_buf) { fbcon_softback_size = 0; @@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ static const char *fbcon_startup(void) } } else { if (softback_buf) { - kfree((void *) softback_buf); + kvfree((void *) softback_buf); softback_buf = 0; softback_top = 0; } @@ -3665,7 +3665,7 @@ static void fbcon_exit(void) } #endif
- kfree((void *)softback_buf); + kvfree((void *)softback_buf); softback_buf = 0UL;
for_each_registered_fb(i) {